GETTING CURIOUS | Are Unions A Good Bargain? with Professor Rebecca Givan

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

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🗓️ 2 September 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In the lead-up to Labor Day, Getting Curious is working it! We're re-releasing an episode from 2018 with Rebecca Givan, an associate professor of Labor Studies and Employment Relations at Rutgers University, all about trade unions. She and Jonathan discuss what unions are, how they operate, and why collective bargaining can be such a powerful tool. Follow Professor Givan on Twitter @rkgwork. She’s also the co-editor of the forthcoming essay collection Strike for the Common Good, which follows teacher walkouts across the US in the last few years. Find out what today’s guest and former guests are up to by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Check out Getting Curious merch at PodSwag.com. Listen to more music from Quiñ by heading over to TheQuinCat.com. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to getting curious. I'm Jonathan Van Ness and every week I sit down for a 40 minute conversation
0:05.9	with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.
0:10.4	This week we're re-releasing an episode from 2018 with Rebecca Given, an associate professor of
0:16.5	labor studies and employment relations at Rutgers University where I ask her.
0:21.5	Are unions a good bargain?
0:24.8	Welcome to Getting Curious, this is Jonathan Menace.
0:26.6	I'm very excited this week because we're hearing so much right now about trade unions.
0:30.8	I feel like over my life I've heard a lot about like unions. I think
0:34.7	Jimmy Hoffa I think I think mob I think I don't I don't know what a union is like I'm
0:40.5	a millennial so I brought in an amazing professor full of knowledge
0:46.0	Rebecca Givin right yeah I nailed it you nailed it I think I didn't put like too much
0:51.7	ambassadors on the on the van parts like
0:54.2	Givon it's just given I love that so what do you want me to call you like
0:57.8	professor given you want me to call you Rebecca okay Rebecca welcome thank you
1:01.9	thank you so much for coming.
1:04.0	So, you know, unions, what are they?
1:07.1	Are they something from the 40s?
1:08.7	Are they, why does the Supreme Court seem to hate them?
1:11.6	Like, what's going on?
1:13.0	Those are great questions.
1:14.6	Unions, were actually at their biggest in the 40s,
1:17.3	so you're totally right to wonder
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